Title: Overview and challenges of palm vein biometric system

Authors: Zarina Mohd Noh; Abdul Rahman Ramli; M. Iqbal Saripan; Marsyita Hanafi

Addresses: Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia; Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract: Palm vein biometric system is one of the biometric technologies that has grabbed the attention of scholarly researchers and industrial alike, due to its distinctive properties and hidden nature. Constant effort had been done in improving the palm vein biometric system performance through the design of its vein acquisition system and vein image analysis. This paper provides an overview of the underlying elements of a palm vein biometric system that summarises the works done, and predicts the upcoming research focus in this area.

Keywords: palm vein biometrics; palm vein patterns; image analysis; performance evaluation; image acquisition; biometric recognition systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2016.077102

International Journal of Biometrics, 2016 Vol.8 No.1, pp.2 - 18

Received: 22 Jul 2014
Accepted: 13 Apr 2015
Published online: 21 Jun 2016 *

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